[android-developers] AppBrain: Programmatic download & install of Market apps

Hi,

Most of you might know AppBrain already. It has a great feature to
install apps on your phone directly from their web site which works on
nearly all android phones (with version 1.5 Cupcake or later). I'd
like to resemble that kind of web install of Market apps in my own
product.

From what I've found out so far the AppBrain Fast Web Install requires
the "Android Services" permission
(com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES). However,
I didn't find much details about this permission yet or what you
actually could do with it. But obviously this seems to do the trick of
installing applications on the phone without requiring any user input
(e.g. manually selecting "download" etc. like when using the "market://
details?..." type of intent).

I wonder how this might work in detail and would greatly appreciate
any hint on this topic.

-- André
http://android.rabold.org

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